Hello,

I have a php script that runs on my webhost, but it gets stopped by my webhost every 2-3 days. I have to login using Putty and execute the php commands on my script to run it again. Is it possible to set something up so the php commands get executed nightly automatically?

Thank You

Absolutely, check out cron:

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html

That should be enough to get you started.. let us know if you need anything.

Absolutely, check out cron:

http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html

That should be enough to get you started.. let us know if you need anything.

Awesome, Thank You.

Can I use this with just SSH access though? Since I am using a webhost?

Thanks

You can usually set up cron jobs through your webhost's control panel.

Awesome, Thank You.

Can I use this with just SSH access though? Since I am using a webhost?

Thanks

Yep, and just like ThatScriptGuy said, you can usually set them up via your hosts control panel as well.

If they use cPanel, see: http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/cpanel/cron_jobs.htm

Yep, and just like ThatScriptGuy said, you can usually set them up via your hosts control panel as well.

If they use cPanel, see: http://www.siteground.com/tutorials/cpanel/cron_jobs.htm

Sweet, I do see it in my webhosting CPanel. But I was wondering how do I make sure cron jobs executes the command in the right directory?

Basically, when I want to activate my script, I run three commands in Putty to do so:

cd public_html/script

nohup php script.php &

php script.php

After that, my script is running fine. How would I setup cron job to execute those commands?

Thank You

You would just set up the cron job to run

nohup php /home/YOUR_USERNAME/public_html/script/script.php

Assuming your public_html directory is in /home/YOUR_USERNAME

You would just set up the cron job to run

nohup php /home/YOUR_USERNAME/public_html/script/script.php

Assuming your public_html directory is in /home/YOUR_USERNAME

AWESOME! Just tested it, worked perfect.

Thank you guys!

AWESOME! Just tested it, worked perfect.

Thank you guys!

Not a problem, always feels good to help. :)

cd public_html/script


Just a quick note, cron doesn't necessarily run in the environment you'd expect it to. It's generally good practice to provide full paths for everything:

10 10 * * * /bin/ls /home/me/public_html/uploads | /bin/mail -s ...

You would just set up the cron job to run

nohup php /home/YOUR_USERNAME/public_html/script/script.php

Assuming your public_html directory is in /home/YOUR_USERNAME

Yup Thats the good one
nohup is a POSIX command to ignore the HUP (hangup) signal, enabling the command to keep running after the user who issues the command has logged out which carry out what you want.